Tagged: Competition

The guy you see above is Magic Mike, well known among the Danish games industry as the guy who makes amazing videogame-themed cocktails and sings a song at the end of each Nordic Game Jam before the awards ceremony. And now we have a special message from him! I have posted all the #NGJ14 posters around Aalborg University in Copenhagen...

From left to right, Anders Lystad Brevik, Kristín Guðmundsdóttir, Ioana Marin and Simon Cutajar of Kvasir Games. Not pictured, Tróndur Justinussen Back in January during Nordic Game Jam 2013 (and again in a blog post here) we announced a contest to win 10.000 DKK for those who managed to publish and sell their jam games. Today we were pleased to announce...

48 hours doesn’t sound like much time for a polished, market-ready game. Small jam games can still demo a great new game mechanic or show a world you want to explore – if only there was more time. If you think you’ve struck gold – take our challenge: Bring your jam game to the market and have a chance of...

Although we’re all still suffering from jamover, we’ve managed to write this blog post (about time, some would say). Here’s is the voting order of the finalists in this year Nordic Game Jam. The 11 finalist were split in 8 digital games and 3 board games. The board games that made it to the finals were Made in China (Most...

One of our event sponsors, Casual Connect Europe, is bringing some great news for all of you. Casual Connect is a yearly event where talented professionals in the casual games industry meet to network and showcase their latest titles while they learn more about the latest trends. This year’s event will run February 12-14 2013 in Hamburg, and YOU could be part...

After all the hard work you put into making a cool game for Nordic Game Jam, it’s only reasonable to try and get your game known everywhere possible, right? Well, MovieStarPlanet has an offer to help you participants with that! If you and your team decide to make a game addressed towards tweens (kids aged 8-13 years old) you can enter...

Nordic Game Jam was born out of a passion for making games. But games doesn’t necessarily have to mean only digital. In fact at last year’s Nordic Game Jam the board games track was quite a success! So once more we are proud to announce that participants at Nordic Game Jam will be able to choose to leave computers away and get...

We decided to extend the deadline for the Nordic Food Challenge, and now the deadline is the same as the NGJ12 hand-in deadline, Sunday at 14:00. The challenge stays the same: make the best game about Nordic Food and win 10 000 kr for a trip to GDC in San Francisco! Nordic Game will be cooperating with its sister program...